6. The idol is something a craftsman made;it is not God.Israel’s calf-shaped idolwill surely be smashed to pieces.
7. “Israel’s foolish plans are like planting the wind,but they will harvest a storm.Like a stalk with no head of grain,it produces nothing.Even if it produced something,other nations would eat it.
8. Israel is eaten up;the people are mixed among the other nationsand have become useless to me.
9. Israel is like a wild donkey all by itself.They have run to Assyria;They have hired other nations to protect them.